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your friendly neighborhood programmer on @blanksword.bsky.social and more they/them

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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here's some concept art by @casey-the-bird.bsky.social for the new Folk-themed doors in the Forest! We're showing a lot of early-game material this quarter because it's become kind of a testing ground for new-and-improved elements of gameplay that we want to apply to the entire game :]
A concept sketch for wibbly wobbly knobbly fences made of wood and spare metal.
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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fighting for my life against a zombie horde on a pleasant, snowy evening in Nazi Zombies: Portable. (2026, PSP/PSVita/3DS/Switch/TI-Nspire/PC/Web Browser)
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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Soarin above the snowcapped hills in Sonic Daybreak (2026, PC). Sorry about the quality, it was a nightmare to make this Bluesky friendly lol.
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goaty goats (Norever Plaza out now!) @goatygoats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Joe @joegamedev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm making a #blender add-on that lets you sculpt directly onto low poly models via the manipulation of object space surface normals under the hood
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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is always raining in the Swamp of Evil until you use the Ether spell to open the Misery Mire. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991, Super Nintendo)
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Princely Girl Games @princelygirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Extra, extra! Have you ever wanted to know exactly what the actresses of the Black Rose Revue thought of Chihiro? Soon you can! Each character will let you know exactly how they feel in all new relationship portraits! Will your rose bloom beautifully in love?! Or wilt with hatred?!
Five different portraits of Tomiko from Phantom of the Black Rose Revue to illustrate her feelings about Chihiro. From left to right: Hate, Neutral, Like, Adore, and Love.
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collin @collinlueb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I sculpted the bust of a man I saw on my mailbox
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The new game from the developer of BETON BRUTAL just got announced and our very own co-director Quinn worked on it :]
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Jamathan @jamathandev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm very excited to reveal my new platforming adventure game TALON TOWERS, that I've been working on in collaboration with @quinnkdev.bsky.social and @hyphinett.bsky.social! Full Gameplay Showcase: youtu.be/nJUOSt1bgyE Wishlist TALON TOWERS on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5272510/...
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thorhighheels @thorhighheels.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
i did the ost for a new game by @akumakira.bsky.social called lavenders ! the game: akuma-kira.itch.io/lavenders the OST: thorhighheels.bandcamp.com/album/lavend...
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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
James Pond approves of elf annihilation this Snow Saturday in Operation Robocod (2003, GBA). Still furious they never brought back James Pond 3 (with battery saves).
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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Goofing around this snow saturday (Bushido Blade, PS1, 1997)
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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Waking up on a dock during the pouring rain after a trip to Wonderland. Alice: Madness Returns (2011, PC)
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real life creature feature @flynnscreations.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
finally sharing what I've been working on it's Bael's Corroboration an rpg about a person that's the main hunter for a town that treat's them shittily, they find and get smitten with a witch not far off from the town and things go off the rails. it will be coming out next month on the 26th
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you remember the Nice Orb from the Demo? The thing that lets you buy permanent upgrades? Now, it's called the Cloud Chamber and here's @casey-the-bird.bsky.social 's concept art for it :] I'll show you what it looks like in-game in the next Kickstarter update! ...if I don't forget...
A beautiful bottle-like structure with "Nuages" written on its door
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robin styler @robinstyler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
stares at u with big moth eyes
mothman type creature wearing a leather jacket, buckles, dress, and boots under a crescent moon in a forest at night
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This has absolutely nothing to do with Blanksword, but a bit over a year ago, I scored a couple guest tracks for Paper Animal Adventure, a wonderful little game by @azurexis.bsky.social (that imo didn't get as much love as it deserves) and I finally got around to posting them online!
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Paper Animal Adventure - Guest Tracks (Leaf Let)
YouTube video by Leaf Let
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kitet made tremendous progress with the new Brain-Part-specific sprites in the past month - this is what you'll be looking at when BLANK goes into Battle with the Bookish Termites :]
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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Famous hater of the police, Frank Castle jumps on a train this (t)rain tuesday to pulverize baddies and even throw a few of them off it. The Punisher (Arcade, 1993) / Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection (PC, 2024)
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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I got fed up with Blender so for now I'm back to analogue tricks to figure out mech design. Came up with this mirror idea while 🍃 and it actually works pretty okay for rough shapes
A photo of a clay sculpture of half a mecha sitting on a mirror, giving the impression of a fully 3D mechaThe previous photo is in blue monochrome and very light, with black digital sketch tracing on top to work out more specific mecha shapes.
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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"games were a promise", a text document on my computer, written tonight. with apologies to efrim menuck, and hopes i didn't rope "my contemporaries" in wrongly.
videogames were a promise.

they were a cultural medium that said, in a hoarse and bitcrushed voice first, then rising in definition, in clarity, with each generation:

"we can tell stories that truly involve you."

you slot this cartridge or this disk in, lock it and load it, and here you are:
adversary to my ones and zeroes.
here you are, an abstracted you on the screen that moves when your thumb will it.
here you are, surrounded by a facsimile of the real or imagined.
here you are, the piece on the board.
here you are, the driving force of meaning.

you, the player.

but games are breaking their promise.

games no longer need a player.

like the stock market, like cryptocurrency, like gambling apps that bet on sports or elections or plagues. they are now a sign without a referrent; they are a plus sign or a minus sign. always online, they are disconnecting from the humane and the human; they sever themselves violently from the human beings that create them, in great bundles of thousands at a time, tens of thousands last year, and that number is finished rising, rising, going up like the line it feeds to its meatgrinder.
their physical manifestations flag and crumble; they sever themselves from the players, too, like a disputed belonging in a divorce. "you will own nothing and be happy"; in owning nothing, you will be an owned object. ownership of things is wealth; ownership of people is dominion, is domination.

stream the newest live service, always online. listen to the latest heinous voice piece of more or less artificial intelligence blather every few seconds, filling the silence, painting over reflection to prevent introspection, or contemplation, or any thought. do nothing, and watch the cutscene as a you-less "you" shatters the skulls of human beings, lovelessly rendered by artists whose trauma was irreplaceable by generative A.I. (the hurt of an intelligence must be real for the later lay-offs to doubly sting).games are turning into a torture device for anyone willing to hear them out.

the people making games are livestock to be cut.
the people buying games are numbers going up.
the people playing games are rats in boxes.
the people loving games hate games and themselves for hating games.

it's like the promise was written on sand, washed away in the deluge.

and people like me want to be a rock. people like my contemporaries, who heard the siren song of the promise lead them to shore, want to sing upon it to break more people's hearts.

i've spoken to people who only play antediluvian games, now. who play ur, or chess; who play the NES, the SNES, the PSX, something, anything other than the rot-driven, digital asbestos-riddled, untouched by human hands and untouching of human hearts aphasia that is modern video games.
that turn away from the cost of doing business to give business to only the old, or the small.

but people like me are starving on the rocks. there is no boat coming to us, bringing us sustenance. we are dying.

we want to be the change of the tide; but this system doesn't give change to those like us, who sing.
it only takes.

please let our games be good.
please let our games be ours.
please let our games be played.
please let our games be real.
please let our games be loved.

this is a pamphlet towards a radical humanity in game development and fandom.

games are made by humans for humans to play; they are not made of humans for humans to consume.

games are made of code, they are not made of claude.

games are made of art, they are not generated.

games are a promise.

say it again, with meaning, this time.

- Quinn K.
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's Casey's most recent contribution to the project, a very intricate and beautiful piece for the new Gates in the Finite Forest, which are now themed after the 3 main factions present there :]
A big fuckass gate made of mushrooms that look cool as hell
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hi everyone, I'm very pleased to announce that we have **2 new team members* on Blanksword! @casey-the-bird.bsky.social is one of our community regulars and a wonderful pixel artist, and @thuswinnie.bsky.social is a fantastic composer (we found out we were fans of each other, so I invited him!)
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Being a game designer is all play and fun until you have to actually look at your own work from 14 months ago
Me having a normal one over an old map concept I made for Blanksword
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gen-AI and "AI Gaming" are nothing but the spiritual successor of NFTs and Metaverse Gaming, except 10x worse because it's built on the back of plagiarism machines that fry the oceans to produce loveless slop. I'd rather get Blanksword-Opening-Cutscened in the groin than being associated with this.
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I was slightly concerned I was being too pushy with the anti-gen-AI advocacy on the socials and on Blanksword's official communications, but based on what we just got in the mail, I haven't been vocal *enough*
A dreadful e-mail for a gen-AI conference
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
blank if he was in fortnite
blank if he was in fortnite
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collin @collinlueb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Really like this design so I made a figure based on it.
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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the hero named Rain returning to his moody shadowy hometown Mitra, in the demo for Final Fantasy Resonance (Switch 2, 2026)
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Ryosuke @whoisryosuke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
been seeing these shitty gen AI versions of the quieres meme floating around and I had to crack open Blender and make one the old fashioned way
Mega Man from Legends holding a blunt in the quieres meme format with Roll standing beside him with one toosame 3D render in Blender
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Credits to @koboldfactory.bsky.social the wonderful UI Art and our new programmer Hrothdel for the implementation (making scrolling panels with Gamemaker's UI is deceptively hard and annoying, so he has a lot of merit!) And like, 10% credit for me for the original design I guess 🤔
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I teased it in August's Kickstarter update - here's how our Quest UI is coming along! We have a few minor tidbits left to adjust, but other than that, it's practically done. We're in the process of adding our first big batch of Quests to the Finite Forest, so stay tuned for that :]
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riley 🐇☄️ @smudgebap.com · 01/09/2026
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Looks at you like this
A mushroom with a pleading look and a big heart thing coming out of its chest
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Trupo @trupotato.itch.io · 30/08/2026
hey i'd like to try taking commissions through vgen, but i haven't an artist invite code. would appreciate if anyone has one to spare vgen.co/trupotato #VGenCode
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Our lead programmer Krool pointed out to me just how silly some of my design announcements in the dev server look like out of context
"Note for implementation of the Cooking System later in this Milestone - we're not going to do Gardening at all for M2, we're just going to have Foraging and we'll implement gardening and the rest of the cooking systems in the following milestones
We're also going to leave Breakfasts out for M2"
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just finished a huge chunk of design work for Blanksword in the form of the new cooking systems associated with the full-game implementation of the Sensitive Foliage Brain Part. I've been at it for the better part of a month now... Very excited to see it in game!!
A concept art by Kitet of BLANK having a giant cooking pot and an apron that says "Kiss the Me <3" in what appears to be a Blanksword battle.
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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I have a need a need...for Heat warped Heatwarped DEMO (2026 PC)
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Khaos Games @khaosgames.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
third up of the #whatsub NPC's we have the mysterious Ferryman. This spirit will always be there to help you home when the waters get too roughs. you can thank him personally at buff.ly/ipPuxYc and thank Blook Mook for this lovely art #gamedev #indiedev #workinprogress #conceptart #whatsub
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Khaos Games @khaosgames.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wich you will have to do as first up we have one of our first characters. Zip the Eel! A suprise main suspect for the reason as to why several people are asking for us to add dating mechanics to the game... #gamedev #indiedev #workinprogress #conceptart #whatsub
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Khaos Games @khaosgames.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I'm gonna start posting some of our lovely concept art from our own Blook Mook! we will start with the backlog of what's in the game, but who knows. maybe we can show some future stuff if y'all act nice 😉 check us out on steam and let us know if we did his drawings justice at steam buff.ly/ipPuxYc
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izzy curse-trel @iznaut.com · 20/08/2026
hey friends i’ve just been alerted by @philsalv.bsky.social about a rare gex-based item popping up for sale but they don’t have a dedicated gex budget for some reason so it once again falls upon me to raise money go buy bimbo (and not Cycene which i’m pretty sure is broken) itch.io/s/198813/vid...
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Video Gex History Foundation Fundraiser by izzy kestrel
A bundle by izzy kestrel, $5.99 for Cycene, bimbo
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We're doing a big rework on the overworld enemy behaviors right now and this the kind of design material that I'm telling the programming & art teams to work with, please direct your prayers to them in these difficult times
A bunch of hard-to-comprehend scribbles of a dog doing various things
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Video Game Rain @rainingames.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If you play mode 7 tennis long enough you will get to ride a train for train tuesday. Aim for the Ace! / Ace wo Nerae! (Super Famicom, 1993)
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New character reveal! The Angel of Peace. You only get this one concept art, I'll never mention her again until the game launches :]
the angel of peace!
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alyssa || lovelandisle @lovelandisle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My indie yuri visual novel/point-and-click, LOVE IN A BOTTLE, is nearing a playable build. For now, I'll avoid a specific ETA, but I'm feeling good about my progress. Wishlist it + watch the newly uploaded FINALIZED OPENING SEQUENCE here! store.steampowered.com/app/1947030/...
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Love In a Bottle on Steam
Ankora the Love Demon only has a month to prove she can make it on her own! Can she settle down and find love?!
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🔞 LadySaytenn | The One From The Bible 🔞 @social.ladysaytenn.art · 14/08/2026
Madotsuki's Room #YumeNikki #Blender #EEVEE #BrushstrokeTools
A 3D render of Madotsuki's Room from Yume Nikki. The models are covered in painterly brushstrokes. Madotsuki is asleep at her desk, and the TV is turned on and displaying a color test.
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Big Mac the cat @biggestmac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hi friends! You've likely seen all the posts about Big Mac and his recent dental work. Good news is he's doing good and recovering well, but also it cost us around 8k total. As a result, we need some help paying off the bill. Please share to boost if nothing else. Donate today: gofund.me/2699c48d6
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Donate to Help Big Mac Recover from Dental Surgery, organized by Sarah Saxena
Meet Big Mac, Right now, you can help him. Big Mac is an adora… Sarah Saxena needs your support for Help Big Mac Recover from Dental Surgery
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Our writer Luca needs some help to get out of what I can only describe as the real-life version of our game's Complex Apartments, any support is appreciated!
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